This text details the intertwining activities and careers of those involved in Canada's security agencies and in the state-sanctioned culture industry during the height of the Cold War.

As Kristmanson demonstrates, "the censorship-intelligence-propaganda complex that proliferated in Canada after World War II played a counterpoint between national culture and state security, with the result that freedom, especially intellectual freedom, plateaued on the principle of nationality." The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, "attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change".

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Characterizations of Tracy Philipps
2. Love Your Neighbour: The RCMP and the National Film Board, 1948-1953
3. Remembering to Forget
4. State Security and Cultural Administration: The Case of Peter Dwyer
5. Pulp History: Repossessing the Gouzenko Myth
6. I Came to Sing: Paul Robeson on the Border
Conclusion
Notes
Index